♠ Posted by Abhijit Bangal in Cricket World Cup,ICC World Cup 2015 at 11:29 PM
The ICC World Cup 2015 is currently underway. In all 14 teams
are playing in the Cup divided in seven teams in two pools. As usual there are ICC
full member teams and minnows like Afghanistan, Scotland, Ireland and UAE as
well.
But what’s more important is the (strange) schedule that the
ICC would have looked better into. India played their first match on the second
day of the tournament – on February 15, a Sunday. The next match that India played
was on the next Sunday – on February 22, which means India played India played only
two matches in eight days.
However, New Zealand had played matches on February 14, February
17 and February 20 – three matches in seven day. It does not look too pleasing.
Well, I have nothing to advocate this as an Indian fan. But there could have been
better symmetry in the fixtures.
Exposing players to matches so regularly will certainly take
a toll on their body. The upside is that the team like New Zealand, which is
still undefeated in the Cup found the going soothing as they had the winning momentum.
But had it been vice versa, any team would have needed a
break to get together and find match form again. As far as India is concerned,
they have got too many off days in between. This also puts players out of
competitive cricket at a World Cup level.
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